Category: P

A chemical form of vitamin B6. One of the water-soluble B-group of vitamins, sometimes termed Vitamin B, which is essential for body metabolism. Pyridoxine deficiency leads to dermatitis, muscular weakness and, in children, to convulsions. It is present in meat, liver, vegetables and whole cereal grains. Water-soluble vitamin, part of the B-complex group; it functions…

A chemical form of vitamin B6. One of the vitamin B6 group; a 4-aminoethyl analog of pyridoxine.  

A chemical form of vitamin B6.  

Fever of unknown origin. Fever; elevation of the body temperature above normal. An increase in body temperature above the typical average of around 98.6° F.  

Referring to fever. A substance that induces fever. Fever or heat producing.    

An ascending urinary tract infection that has reached the pyelum (pelvis) of the kidney. A purulent infection of the kidney tissue and renal pelvis. Inflammation of the kidney and the pelvis of the kidney. A common renal disease from acute bacterial infection. Infection, usually bacterial, of the kidney. Acute pyelonephritis, usually resulting from the spread…

A substance used to cleanse or purge, especially causing the immediate evacuation of the bowel. Substance that cleanses the bowels. An agent that will cause evacuation of the intestinal contents. A very strong laxative. An agent that causes cleansing or watery evacuation of the bowels, usually with griping (painful cramps). Drugs which evacuate the bowels;…

A blockage (blood clot) of the main artery of the lung. A blockage of a pulmonary artery by a blood clot. Occlusion of one or more of the pulmonary arteries by a thrombus, which almost always originates in the leg veins from blood stasis, vessel injury, or changes in clotting factors. A blood clot in…

Pertaining to child birth. Pertaining to a woman who has just given birth to a child or to the period or state of confinement after childbirth. Pertaining to, resulting from, or following childbirth. Referring to the puerperium.